9 – Saifuddin Kichloo became the first Indian to receive the Lenin Peace Prize of the then Soviet Union in 1952.

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10 – American President John F. Kennedy and British Prime Minister Harald Macmillan decided to form a multi-dimensional NATO nuclear force in 1962 after talks in the Bahamas.

11 – Kurt Waldheim became the fourth Secretary-General of the United Nations Security Council in 1971.

12 – The country’s first vessel INS Satavahan was given the submarine training in 1974 in the fleet of the fleet in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh.
The Constitution came into effect in Madagascar in 1975.

13 – A Pan Am’s Jumbo Jet in Lockerbie, near the Scottish border, crashed in 1988 with 258 passengers.

14 – Formation of Commonwealth by 11 Soviet republics in 1991 in Alma Ata, the capital of Kazakhstan.

15 – Nepalese Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala resigned in 1998.

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16 – Britain closed the Embassy of Bogota after the threat in 2002.

17 – Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan were included in the list of the world’s 50 influential people in 2008 by American magazine News Beac.